Hello you horrible people! I'm hoping to eventually do a comic of my own if I can someday get off my arse and stop procrastinating. Just to give you a basic outline it's going to be a Sci-Fi story geared at a similar age range as Doctor Who and Blake's 7 (Basically family audiences with a slight tilt towards adults). However, while I'm aiming for a Web-PG rating with maybe an occasional Web-14 I'm curious as to how much swearing would be appropriate. While some limits are pretty obvious (e.g no gratuitous cursing, no f bombs in a PG) there's a few issues I's like some feedback on. For example, I'm a little unsure on whether or not s**t would be appropriate since the Web rating system seems to be modelled after US TV which generally seems to treat it as pretty taboo. However, I've seen a lot of PG rated movies, often directly aimed at families such as E.T, Back to The Future and Warriors of Virtue that used it a lot, so would it be appropriate for a Web-PG comic?

Since ratings are arbitrary and self-imposed in webcomics, you can put the rating that you think is suitable. If you think that it's not a problem for children to hear swear words like "shit", by all means, put PG or lower on it. I for one am pretty sure that kids can hear the same words everywhere around them, on the streets, in the house, from friends and so on.